A Universal Basic Income For Arts Workers? One Country Is Trying It
Ireland will launch a basic income guarantee program for artists and arts workers in 2022. The three-year initial plan will have a budget of...
Art Critic Reviews Work Without Noticing That It Depicts Rupert Murdoch
Robert Nelson of Melbourne's The Age wrote several hundred words about Jeremy Deller's Father and Son — life-sized grey wax candles, lit and gradually...
As Broadway Reopens, Who Is Broadway For?
Representation absolutely matters. But ever since Broadway announced that so many Black plays would reopen its season, there has been a feeling of dread...
London’s Barbican Center Commits To “Radical Transformation” After Investigation
The external review, which interviewed 35 people, identified “a lack of diversity in the organisation, an absence of confidence in HR systems and in...
Cities Are Spreading Like Organisms
In a widely cited paper from 2007, on a number of common measures of innovation and wealth creation, cities deliver benefits that exceed what we would...
Ludovic Morlot Appointed To Lead Barcelona Orchestra
Morlot, born in Lyon in 1974, will replace Kazushi Ono. The contract with the OBC is for four years, with a minimum of eleven...
Niall Ferguson: Why I’m Starting A New University
Those of us who were fortunate to be undergraduates in the 1980s remember the exhilarating combination of intellectual freedom and ambition to which all...
Musicians: Suffocating In The Gig Economy
Many musicians have watched, cringing, as the term “gig economy” has become a defining term of the national economic Zeitgeist. Not just because the...
How Can Today’s Piano Students Learn To Improvise? The Same Way They Did In...
John Mortensen has made a thorough study of how music students in Baroque-era Naples were taught to improvise harmony and counterpoint, then a basic...
John Cleese Cancels Cambridge Union Appearance Over Speaker Blacklist
"I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for...
Chinese Composers Are Making Western Classical Music Their Own
In fact, there have been composers in China writing for European instruments for over a century. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, though,...
Portland’s Iconic Super Bookstore Faces Uncertainty
The latest plot twist has foreshadowed a potentially unhappy ending. Like the rest of Portland’s urban core — and like downtowns across the United...
The Building Industry Helped Create The Climate Crisis. The National Building Museum Wants To...
"The construction industry is responsible for nearly 40 percent of global carbon emissions, and it must be part of the solution, says museum president...
Study: Listening To Familiar Music Boosts Brain Function
"We have new brain-based evidence that autobiographically salient music -; that is, music that holds special meaning for a person, like the song they...
Here’s The First State To Requires All High Schoolers To Take A Media Literacy...
The Illinois legislature approved the rule this summer — almost entirely along party lines. Republicans seem to assume out-of-hand that the class will be...
Theatre Workers Aren’t Just Leaving Jobs, They’re Leaving Theatre
Theater salaries, even for full-time jobs, are so low so often that the weekly nationwide theater newsletter Nothing for the Group recently debuted a section called That’s...
What Will Change The Way Hollywood Portrays Muslims? Maybe Just This Directory
When a co-founder of the Pillars Fund advocacy organization discussed this issue within the industry, he heard repeatedly that decision-makers didn't know where to...
This Theatre Is Avoiding Founder’s Syndrome By Shutting Down When Its Founder Retires
First Folio Theatre, a small Equity company in the Chicago suburbs, will close when David Rice retires in 2024. He and his wife founded...
Think There Aren’t Any Serous Female Magicians Or Jugglers? Let’s Make That Idea Disappear
Los Angeles magician Krystyn Lambert and puppeteer Pam Severn have launched a new variety show called "No Man's Land" featuring circus artists, jugglers, ventriloquists,...
Sadler’s Wells Reveals Plans For New Dance Center In London’s Olympic Park
Sadler's Wells East, one of the anchors of the coming East Bank arts district, will include a 550-seat theatre presenting numerous dance genres, a...
Attendance At The World’s Most Visited Museums Plunged By 78% In 2020
The two most-attended are the same as most years, the Louvre and the National Museum of China; below them, pandemic closures changed the rankings...
Actor Dean Stockwell Dead At 85
After a successful but unhappy career as a child star, he left and returned to acting several times: in the late '50s and 60s,...
Canada’s $100K Giller Prize Goes To Omar El Akkad For “What Strange Paradise”
An Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author who lives in Portland, Oregon, El Akkad describes his novel as "a repurposed fable. It's the story of Peter...
Diagnosis: What Would It Take To Make Victoria BC A Music Center?
Research was completed by an organization that specializes in analyzing local music scenes — Sound Diplomacy — which has come up with strategies for...
Scottish Nightclub Tries To Harness Dancers’ Energy To Power Club
Glasgow nightclub SWG3 is set to trial technology that captures body heat from dancers to create renewable energy to heat up or to cool...
